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Critics claim Rudy Giuliani’s comments are making more problems for the president, while advocates say the new member of Trump’s legal squad is changing the media narrative; Fox News contributors Judy Miller and Tammy Bruce join the debate.

Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, never discussed with the president the consulting fees he received from corporate clients, Rudy Giuliani told Friday.

“The guy is under severe emotional pressure. The guy is genuinely collateral damage.”

– Rudy Giuliani, referring to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

Giuliani is also a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which is the office currently investigating Cohen’s business dealings.

Giuliani joined Trump’s outside legal squad in April to represent Trump in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties to Russia.

Meanwhile, AT& T CEO Randall Stephenson told Friday that the company’s chief Washington lobbyist, Bob Quinn, would be leaving the company after overseeing the hiring of Cohen as a political consultant, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“There is no other route to say it- AT& T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake, ” Stephenson’s memo to employees said.

“To be clear, everything we did was done according to the law and entirely legitimate, ” Stephenson wrote. “But the fact is our past association with Cohen was a serious misjudgment.”

Stephenson told Quinn plans to retire, but people familiar with the matter told the Journal that the policy chief was forced to leave.

Quinn, a lawyer who joined the company in 1993 and took over its Washington office in October 2016, didn’t instantly respond to requests for comment.

The telecommunications company said it was contacted by examiners with Mueller and “all information requested in November and December of 2017. “